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6 August 2010 View Comments

Paint fumes and Brain Damage

Paint fumes and Brain Damage

Since each individual’s immune system is different, it is hard to determine how much exposure to paint fumes it takes to have damaging effects. In most cases, it takes years of exposure to affect the brain. But in some rare instances, a single exposure to paint fumes has left impairment, depending on the level of [...]

2 August 2010 View Comments

Green tea for colon cleansing

Green tea for colon cleansing

For thousand of years, green tea have been enjoyed by people from China and Japan. Among the first countries that cultivated tea is India and China. In traditional Chinese and Indian medicine, practitioners used green tea as a stimulant, diuretic to promote the excretion of urine, astringent to control bleeding and help heal wounds and [...]

30 July 2010 View Comments

Why You Should Ditch Your Microwave – Part 3

Why You Should Ditch Your Microwave – Part 3

Microwaves were not intentionally fabricated to make cooking faster and easier. Instead, microwaves were stumbled upon by scientists trying to invent magnetron, a tube that produces microwaves. Dr. Percy Spencer, an engineer with Raytheon Company was testing the magnetron in 1946. He had a chocolate bar in his pocket that suddenly [...]

19 July 2010 View Comments

Why You Should Ditch Your Microwave – Part 2

Why You Should Ditch Your Microwave – Part 2

During World War II, in an effort to find ways to overcome the logistical problems of producing edible food in a short time, and to be able to reduce the amount and bulk of cooking fuels that would be required to support their planned operations for the military invasion of Russia, the Nazis began research [...]

14 July 2010 View Comments

Why You Should Ditch Your Microwave – Part 1

Why You Should Ditch Your Microwave – Part 1

Do you believe in the catchword, “You are what you eat.” Ideally, you would like to eat most of your food raw. But most of us won’t be able to accomplish that. When you need to sterilize your cloth hand towel, you can use your microwave oven but not in preparing your food. Here’s why.
Due [...]

7 June 2010 View Comments

Manage Constipation, Prevent Cancer

Manage Constipation, Prevent Cancer

Colorectal cancer ranks third in the mortality rate, worldwide, (Lung cancer ranks first among the major cause of death afflicting 1.3 million of the world’s population which results to about 639,000 deaths per year). The threat of a person becoming afflicted with colon cancer is very real. Noticeably, these statistics increase in number per year [...]

26 May 2010 View Comments

Immediate Effects Of Stress And Some Natural Solutions

Immediate Effects Of Stress And Some Natural Solutions

Stress. Everyday, we face this it. We cannot help but be affected. What to do? “Long-term stress – the kind that stems from constant anxiety about the bad economy or your unhappy job situation- can cause an increase in cortisol hormone levels,” says Amy Wechsler, MD, author of The Mind-Beauty Connection, who specializes in psychodermatology, [...]

23 May 2010 View Comments

Your Bathroom Posture

Your Bathroom Posture

While we have excellent solutions and techniques for colon cleansing, we may have overlooked a fundamental reason for the buildup of colon-bound toxins. For centuries humankind lived without the “thrones” now found in the majority of bathrooms or water closets in the western world. Indeed, our use of the commode has made us consider not [...]

17 May 2010 View Comments

Empower your Children – Stimulate their Minds

Empower your Children – Stimulate their Minds

Children’s minds are synonymous to sponges. They absorb everything around. Be it a good information or a junk, their brain is non-selective. Because the early formative years in the life of children affect their later choices in life, parents should nourish them well during their formative years. Several developmental researches prove that nature and nurture [...]

11 May 2010 View Comments

The Effect of Deep Sea Diving on Brain Function

The Effect of Deep Sea Diving on Brain Function

The human brain receives about 20% of total body oxygen consumption, usually through normal breathing in a normal situation. It functions mainly for cognition, consciousness, orientation, speech and memory. Its enclosure in a cranium with the protection of meninges and brain- blood barrier suggests its vulnerability and fragility especially from abrupt changes of conditions such [...]